Mark Levin: ‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’. * * *
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“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times

Friday, March 26, 2010

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU GONE TO A FAST FOOD AND THE LATINO EMPLOYEE COULD BARELY SPEAK ENGLISH?WHILE OBAMA SELLS US OUT TO HIS NEW LATINO VOTERS, AT LEAST SHERIFF JOE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE LAWS OF THIS ONCE GREAT NATION, DO APPLY TO BOTH ILLEGALS AND HISPANDERING POLITICIANS!

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press WriterFriday, March 26, 2010(03-26) 14:09 PDT PHOENIX, (AP) --Sheriff's deputies targeting illegal immigration on Friday arrested 12 people during the raids of four Phoenix-area McDonald's restaurants, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.Deputies armed with search warrants raided McDonald's in Scottsdale, Tempe, and Mesa, and a mansion in Paradise Valley on Friday morning. The mansion is owned by Richard Coulston, who owns the restaurants.Deputies could be seen on local television stations swarming around Coulston's mansion.Arpaio said his deputies believe more than 50 employees working at the restaurants may have used fake or stolen identities to get their jobs.McDonald's Corp. referred comment to Coulston's company, R&L Management.In a statement, R&L spokeswoman Julie Pace said people shouldn't jump to conclusions without all the facts."The company has trained its managers and hiring personnel regarding proper hiring procedures," Pace said. "It does not permit the hiring of employees without completing those procedures ... Any individuals unable to meet the legal requirements for establishing authorization to work are not hired."Pace said the company was cooperating with the sheriff's office.___Associated Press Writer Mark Carlson contributed to this report.http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/26/financial/f140903D03.DTL*MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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*WHAT COSTS MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR?

Illegal Aliens Cause Massive Cuts For US Seniors (THESE ARE DATED FIGURES. CALIFORNIA ALONE PUTS OUT NEARLY $20 BILLION. LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PAYS OUT $600 MILLION IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, WHILE IT’S SCHOOLS ARE IN MELTDOWN AND MEXICAN GANGS FLOURISH!)1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.* 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.* 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.* 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! *5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.* 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. *7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.* 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.* 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. *10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.*11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. *12. The National Policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. *13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. *14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States Total cost is a whoopin'... $338.3

*VISIT THIS SITE FOR INFO ON OUR NATION’S IDENTITY AS WE BECOME ANNEXED BY MEXICOTHE BRADLEY REPORT ON AMERICAN’S NATIONAL IDENTITYBRADLEYPORJECT.org *Anchor Baby Power La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 "Anchor Babies" born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000. La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately 500,000 "Anchor Babies" born every year. The video below depicts the many faces of the "Anchor Baby Generation". The video includes a fascinating segment showing a group of elementary school children in Santa Ana, California confronting the Minutemen vigilantes. The video ends with a now famous statement by Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez of the University of Texas at Austin.

http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm

*LA RAZA AGENDA: 3 ExamplesRichard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over. . We are here to stay."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."*NOTE THAT PELOSI HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER NAPA WINERY. FEINSTEIN HAS LONG HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER S.F. HOTEL. BOTH ARE DILIGENT IN SABOTAGING E-VERIFY AND WORK HARD FOR AMNESTY.BARBARA BOXER HAS LONG HARANGUED I.C.E. FOR ATTEMPTING TO ENFORCE OUR LAWS AND DO THEIR JOBS! SHE HAS FOUGHT ENGLISH ONLY LAWS KNOWING MEXICANS HATE THE GRINGO LANGUAGE.BOTH FEINSTEIN AND BOXER HAVE FOUGHT VOTING I.D. REQUIREMENTS SO ILLEGALS DON’T HAVE TO PULL OUT ONE OF THEIR POCKETFULS OF FRAUDULENT I.D.s to VOTE.nancy pelosi's email address

MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY

“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor*

Lou Dobbs Tonight Monday, June 16, 2008 Tonight, we’ll have all the latest on the devastating floods in the Midwest and all the day’s news from the campaign trail. The massive corporate mouthpiece the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding a “North American Forum” to lay out its “shared vision” for the United States, Canada and Mexico – which is to say a borderless, pro-business super-state in which U.S. sovereignty will be dissolved. Undercover investigators have found incredibly lax security and enforcement at U.S. border crossings, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. This report comes on the heels of a separate report by U.C. San Diego that shows tougher border security efforts aren’t deterring illegal entries to the United States.*ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS. Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold. *! YOU LIE! THE BELOW IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DEMS DO TO US EVERY DAY. THEY LIE ABOUT DEFENDED OUR BORDERS, JOBS, AND CULTURE, WHILE THEY CONTINUALLY PUT OUT INDUCEMENTS FOR MORE ILLEGALS TO CLIMB OUR BORDERS, AND HEAD FOR THE VOTING BOOTHS!*“The president's straddling can work for the time being. But unless he wants to end up in the sawdust, acrobat Obama will eventually have to hop on one horse and lead the way. That would have to be the horse named "Enforcement First." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR *“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.comTHE INVASION AND OCCUPATION YOU’RE PAYING FOR . HERE’S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

*WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES WHERE 50% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IS $50 MILLION PER MONTH. 95% OF ALL ARRESTS FOR MURDER ARE FOR ILLEGALS!*38 MILLION ILLEGALS HAVE WALKED OVER OUR BORDERS, INTO OUR JOBS, AND WE GET THE BILLS FOR THEIR WELFARE AND PRISON COSTS.HOW MUCH DOES ALL THIS “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR COST?IT’S STAGGERING! *WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES WHERE 50% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IS $50 MILLION PER MONTH. 95% OF ALL ARRESTS FOR MURDER ARE FOR ILLEGALS!*7 Stressors Sapping the Middle ClassRick Newman, On Tuesday March 16, 2010, 5:02 pm EDT We all know about keeping up with the Joneses. Now, the Great Recession and the jobless recovery have introduced a new socioeconomic phenomenon: slip-sliding with the Smiths.Working harder for less is the new normal--for those lucky enough to have a job. Millions of families are giving up comforts they long took for granted, such as restaurant meals, new clothes, vacations, spacious cars, home improvements, and cable television. College funds and retirement savings have taken a hit, and some families have been forced to downsize their homes or, worse, submit to foreclosure. Little wonder that record numbers of Americans tell pollsters it's getting harder to get ahead and that they worry their kids' standard of living may fall rather than rise.The obvious culprit is a terrible job market that has left 15 million Americans out of work and millions more working less than they would like. But several economic trends have been stressing the American middle class for a decade or more, and the recession intensified those pressures as well. Healthcare and college costs, for example, have been rising unabated. Seniors who are living longer require more late-in-life care, with the costs often borne by their middle-aged kids. A turbulent economy, meanwhile, has hammered away at incomes, job security, and net worth--and even led the White House to create a "middle-class task force" that gives the problem an official hue: "It is harder to attain a middle-class lifestyle now than it was in the recent past," declared a recent task-force report.Politicians want to help, with dozens of proposals in Washington and state capitals to create jobs, subsidize living costs, and prove that elected officials care. But most governments are running out of money, and many of the political proposals are hollow, vote-seeking gestures. Americans, meanwhile, are relying more on themselves by cutting spending, saving more, changing their lifestyles, and re-evaluating their careers. As a halting economic recovery evolves, here are seven stressors that middle-class Americans need to address in order to maintain their standard of living:Falling income. The pinch that many families feel comes from incomes that have fallen while other unavoidable costs have continued to go up. From 2000 to 2008, median household income after inflation was basically unchanged, the weakest performance since at least the end of World War II. And that was mostly before the recession. Economists estimate that once additional data are tallied, they will show that median real income fell by 5 to 7 percent during the recession. That's a huge drop that seems unlikely to reverse itself anytime soon, since a weak job market means that even those who have jobs are far less likely to get raises. And many people have absorbed pay cuts or taken new jobs that pay a lot less than they used to earn.A sudden loss of income can be devastating for those with a lot of debt and little savings, which unfortunately includes far too many Americans. Even so, people are adjusting. There's been a stutter-step increase in the savings rate, which, if it lasts, will help pad rainy-day funds. Shoppers are buying fewer extravagances and more discount merchandise. And after a 20-year borrowing binge, Americans are paying off (or defaulting on) record amounts of debt. If those trends continue, the typical household may eventually lower costs enough to live comfortably on less income--and enjoy a few new perks if incomes begin to rise again.Reduced savings/net worth. When incomes fall faster than expenses, the first impulse is often to make up the difference by borrowing. But banks and credit-card issuers have clamped down on lending, leaving many Americans no choice but to raid their savings to pay the bills. This has happened at the same time that home values have plunged. Many homeowners now have little or no home equity, and a topsy-turvy stock market has stabilized more than 25 percent below its peak values from 2007. The result is a net loss of about $12 trillion in Americans' net worth over the past three years, according to the Federal Reserve--about $102,000 per U.S. household.A sharp housing rebound or a fresh stock market rally would help recover those losses, but neither seems especially likely. And stock-market gains tend to benefit the wealthy much more than the middle class anyway. So the majority of Americans will have to rebuild their net worth the old-fashioned way: by saving more, spending less, and living more frugally. The savings rate has in fact ticked up over the past year, but not by as much as some economists had expected. That's one sign that it may take a long time for consumers to adjust their behavior and get used to a new financial reality.

High healthcare costs. The sob stories trotted out by advocates of healthcare reform ring true. Healthcare costs rose by 155 percent between 1990 and 2008, according to the White House's middle-class task force, while median household income rose by just 20 percent. That means medical costs take an increasing share of take-home pay for virtually every family. A separate study from 2009 found that 62 percent of all personal bankruptcies stemmed from medical problems that overwhelmed family finances. Even if Washington passes healthcare reform, rising medical costs seem likely to pressure the family budget for years, forcing many to simply spend less on other things.Child-care/elder-care expenses. Many families have maintained their standard of living because both parents work. Between 1990 and 2008, for example, hours worked by both parents in a typical middle-income family increased 5 percent; in a middle-income single-parent family, hours worked spiked by 13.4 percent. That leaves less time for taking care of kids, aging parents, and anything else that needs attention--and the added costs of paying somebody else to do it. Data from the recession may show that child- and elder-care costs have eased as more people find themselves involuntarily stuck at home. And as Americans simplify their lives, some moms and dads may decide that it makes sense for one parent to spend more time at home instead of working to pay for a bunch of stuff the family doesn't really need.[See 17 ways consumers are changing.]College costs. A typical family with two kids should sock away about $4,200 per year to pay for college. That's a tall order. College costs have risen about 43 percent since 1990, nearly twice the rise in median income. And with state and federal education funds being axed, public universities are hiking tuition and fees. A budget crisis in California, for instance, has led to a 32 percent increase in tuition at marquee state schools like UCLA and Berkeley, with more increases likely. Private schools, meanwhile, are struggling with steep drops in their endowments thanks to the financial crisis and the housing bust, which trashed mortgage-based investments. The bottom line for many families is that they'll have to take out bigger college loans, with students working more to pay for their own education.Housing costs. The cost of financing and maintaining a home soared by 56 percent between 1990 and 2008, thanks to the housing bubble that's now deflating. Many families that bought a home near the peak of the market--say, between 2005 and 2007--are stuck with property that's declining in value and in some cases worth less than the mortgage. That will continue to fuel foreclosures and the stress of making huge housing payments that the family income can barely cover. But the housing bust is helping bring prices back down to manageable levels for many families, one break for those who escape the recession with their household finances more or less intact.False expectations. For the past 40 or 50 years, Americans have lived by a series of unofficial tenets: A good education guarantees a good job, hard work will bring prosperity, and 40 years of 40-hour-a-week work earns a comfortable retirement. Then, maybe; now, not so much. Workers who believe that somebody owes them a comfortable life just because they try hard are risking bitter disappointment in a Darwinian economy, where there are likely to be more losers and fewer winners than we're used to. The winners will be those who learn how to adapt, expect nobody to give them anything, and are prepared to work harder in the future than they did in the past. That's how it was in America before anybody ever heard of the middle class, and it may be that way for a while again. The real middle class--the true bedrock of the nation--will be able to handle it.*WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES WHERE 50% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IS $50 MILLION PER MONTH. 95% OF ALL ARRESTS FOR MURDER ARE FOR ILLEGALS!*WSWS.ORG GET ON THEIR FREE NO ADS EMAILS FOR THE NON-CORPORATE INTERESTS SLANT*US jobless claims, home sales point to protracted recessionBy Barry Grey 26 March 2010The US Labor Department on Thursday reported that initial claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly in the week ending March 20, prompting much of the media to hail the data as another sign that the job market is “stabilizing” and the economic recovery is gaining strength.The number of unemployed people who signed up for jobless benefits for the first time fell by 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 442,000, down from the prior week’s figure of 456,000. However, all but 4,000 of the decline was the result of changes in the metrics used by the Labor Department to calculate the data on a seasonally adjusted basis.Had the report used the previous methodology, the figure for new claims would have actually been higher than the 450,000 projected by most economists.The four-week moving average for initial claims fell by 11,000 to 453,750. Continuing claims—those made for more than one week—fell by 54,000 to 4.6 million for the week ending March 13. However, this was down from an upwardly revised figure for the previous week.The Labor Department said that although initial claims fell in three of the past four weeks, they were still above the 439,000 posted in early February.One measure of the ongoing jobs crisis, which has seen the elimination of 8.4 million jobs since December 2007, is the fact that more than 11.1 million workers are claiming jobless benefits—4.6 million of whom are on state jobless rolls and 5.7 million who are receiving extended benefits from the federal government.The government puts the official jobless total at 15.1 million workers. In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted that the “unemployment situation is very weak,” with 40 percent of those officially counted as jobless having been without work for more than 6 months.However, far from suggesting any serious job creation measures, Bernanke reiterated his call for the White House and Congress to formulate an austerity program to rein in record federal budget deficits. Such, in fact, is the policy of the Obama administration.Obama has rejected out of hand any government job-creation programs, such as public works. In the name of “job creation,” he and congressional Democrats have proposed a series of tax breaks for business, claiming that such windfalls will revive the private sector and encourage more hiring.Last week, Congress passed an administration “jobs” bill allocating a derisory $17 billion, virtually all of which goes to tax cuts for companies that hire unemployed workers. No serious measures are being taken to address the increasingly desperate economic plight of millions of Americans, who are facing ongoing layoffs, wage cuts, home foreclosures, utility shutoffs, malnutrition, and the loss of savings as a result of plummeting home prices, rising health care costs and pension reductions.Another so-called “jobs” bill is in the works that will provide additional tax windfalls for business interests.With the passage of Obama’s health care overhaul, the stage has been set for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. This is to be a precedent for sweeping cuts in the core “entitlement” social program, Social Security. Earlier this year, Obama announced the formation of a bipartisan deficit commission to recommend cuts in Social Security and further cuts in Medicare as a means of reversing the explosive growth of federal budget deficits.Meanwhile, corporate America, with the encouragement of the Obama administration, is utilizing mass unemployment to drive down the wages and living standards of the working class, while extracting more production from those still employed, thereby increasing corporate profits.According to most economists, the figure for new jobless claims has to fall below 400,000 to indicate a shift to net job creation. Some economists responded to Thursday’s report with a sober assessment. Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors, said, “We are still not seeing the degree of job creation that is needed to meaningfully chip away at a persistently high unemployment rate near 10 percent.”While noting that the pace of job losses has slowed from the torrent that followed the financial crash of 2008, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen said this week, “What I fear is that unemployment will stay high for years.”In another sign of the continuing slump, the Commerce Department on Wednesday reported that sales of new homes fell 2.2 percent in February from the previous month, hitting their lowest level since records began in 1963. February new home sales were at an annualized rate of 308,000 units, 13 percent below the level of February 2009.That marked the fourth straight monthly decline. The Federal Reserve is set to end its purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities from the home finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the end of this month, which is likely to result in a further decline in home sales and prices and a new wave of layoffs in construction and related industries.Barely noted by the media is an escalating wave of layoffs by state and local governments, which are responding to soaring deficits by slashing services and shutting schools. State and local governments employ 20 million workers, or 15 percent of the labor force. In the first two months of this year, they have cut 45,000 jobs, and more layoffs are expected in fiscal year 2011.Just this week, the city of Baltimore announced the layoff of 600 employees, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina) school board voted to begin laying off 600 teachers and cutting the pay of all 224 assistant principals.Private sector layoffs announced this week include 840 by Delta Airlines at its Cincinnati, Ohio facility; 200 by defense contractor BAE Systems at its Jefferson City, Tennessee plant; and a 4 percent workforce reduction throughout New England by the Shaw’s supermarket chain.The true depth of the recession is being obscured by the government. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Board economist Jeremy Nalewaik released a paper arguing that the government’s reliance on estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) to measure economic performance has resulted in an underestimation of the depth of the recession, which officially ended last year, and an overestimation of the scale of the claimed recovery.Nalewaik said that a more accurate barometer is a measure of national income, called gross domestic income (GDI). He noted, “The differences have become particularly glaring over the latest cyclical downturn, which appears considerably worse along several dimensions when looking at GDI.”Along similar lines, David Rosenberg, chief economist at money management firm Gluskin Sheff, wrote in a note to clients last week that GDI was still contracting in the third quarter of 2009, when the GDP was reported to have surged by 5.9 percent. He pointed out that the gap between GDP and GDI was the largest on record.This statistical divergence reflects the fact that the present recovery is largely a rebound in corporate profits and the wealth of the financial elite, while the living standards of the vast majority of Americans are continuing to fall. In other words, class divisions in the US are widening.Corporate CEOs are continuing to award themselves multimillion-dollar pay packages. In the past few days, Ford announced that Chief Executive Alan Mulally is receiving $17.9 million for 2009, an increase of nearly 6 percent over 2008; JC Penney CEO Myron Ullman will get at least $4.7 million; and the CEO of insurance giant Travelers, Jay Fishman, is netting $20.6 million, an increase of 42 percent over the previous year.*WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES WHERE 50% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IS $50 MILLION PER MONTH. 95% OF ALL ARRESTS FOR MURDER ARE FOR ILLEGALS!

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California... You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California. "Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table". Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year Now take 30% away for state and federal tax Joe Legal now has $31,231.00

Jose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year Jose Illegal pays no taxes... Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage $1000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $19,231.00

Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare Joe Legal pays for food $1,000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays rent of $1,000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home. Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens... Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

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WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES WHERE 50% OF THE WORK FORCE ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, IS $50 MILLION PER MONTH. 95% OF ALL ARRESTS FOR MURDER ARE FOR ILLEGALS!

OBAMA’S BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY IS CALLED: no enforcement!Like illegals didn’t know our laws are a silly gringo joke? Like our borders, flag, language, and culture???IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING OUR BORDERS OPEN, UNDEFENDED, AND POROUS FOR THE HORDES OF ILLEGALS THE LA RAZA DEMS DEMAND ON FOR “CHEAP” LABOR FOR THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS, AND NEW LA RAZA PARTY VOTERS!

latimes.comU.S. funding for jailing illegal immigrants falls far short of costsCalifornia is expected to get $90 million this year, but the state spends about $1 billion annually. L.A. County says it gets pennies on the dollar for its expenditures.By Anna GormanFebruary 5, 2010

The $90 million California is expected to receive from the federal government this year for jailing illegal immigrants convicted of crimes is far short of the state's roughly $1 billion annual cost, officials said.

"The federal government has sole control over the nation's borders. The states do not," said H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the state's finance department. "The incarceration costs associated are borne disproportionally by states like California."

Los Angeles County officials have not projected how much in reimbursement funds they could receive this year.

But in 2009, the county received $15.4 million in federal money, officials said. That is a fraction of the $100 million it spends on average to jail illegal immigrants.

"The federal government reimburses us literally pennies on the dollar what it costs us," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Mark McCorkle said

The state -- which houses 19,000 illegal immigrants in its prisons and jails -- receives the federal money through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP. Obama's proposed budget plan sets aside $330 million for the incarceration program, down from $400 million last year.

But with California struggling to balance its budget, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is continuing to fight for additional funding, Palmer said.

Last year, Sheriff Lee Baca wrote a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging an increase in funding for the program.

"Because SCAAP reimburses previously incurred undocumented criminal alien incarceration costs, every dollar of incarceration costs not reimbursed by SCAAP adds a dollar to state and local budget shortfalls that must be offset by reductions in other essential services," Baca wrote.

Although the county does not know exactly how many undocumented immigrants are in its jails, McCorkle said about 3,300 inmates identify themselves as foreign-born.

Officials from states greatly affected by illegal immigration long have argued that their taxpayers should not have to bear the burden for Washington's failure to control the border.

*WHAT COSTS MORE PER YEAR THAN THE IRAQ WAR?

Illegal Aliens Cause Massive Cuts For US Seniors 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.* 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.* 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.* 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! *5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.* 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. *7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.* 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.* 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. *10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.*11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. *12. The National Policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. *13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. *14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States Total cost is a whoopin'... $338.3

ICE arrested eight individuals on May 26 on charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking, and immigration and other violations in 14 states. The arrests stemmed from an unsealed 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury against 12 defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals. (ICE Press Release, May 27, 2009; DOJ Press Release, May 27, 2009).

The indictment alleges that Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev — a citizen of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kansas — owned and operated a labor leasing company in Kansas City, Missouri. Through his company and a dozen other businesses, Askarkhodjaev allegedly secured fraudulent labor contracts for housekeeping, cleaning services and other duties with clients in the hotel/resort, casino and construction industries in 14 states, including: Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wyoming. To fulfill the contracts, the businesses allegedly used foreign nationals who either entered the United States illegally, overstayed their visas, or did not have legal authorization to reside or work in their specific locations during their term of employment. (DOJ Press Release, May 27, 2009).

The indictment accuses Askarkhodjaev and several associates of committing a long list of other crimes. These include failing to pay employment taxes; failing to pay overtime; failing to pay workers in the manner required by federal regulations; defrauding insurance companies; employing illegal aliens and threatening the illegal workers with physical harm in order to coerce them to work. In addition, DOJ alleges that Askarkhodjaev and his associates used false information in order to obtain certification and approval for hundreds of foreign H-2B workers. (Id.).

The indictment further alleges that Askarkhodjaev and his associates required the foreign nationals they lured to the United States to work where they assigned them, but then threatened to cancel the immigration status of aliens who refused to work as directed. The aliens were allegedly charged numerous fees and were forced to reside in exorbitantly priced apartments, which were exclusively secured and controlled by Askarkhodjaev's businesses. These fees and expenses, combined with the lack of payment for hours worked, often resulted in the aliens receiving a paycheck with negative earnings, which was allegedly meant to ensure that the workers never made enough to repay debts, purchase transportation home, or to pay for their living expenses. (Id.). Acting U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth described the apartments as "crowded, substandard and overpriced." (The Kansas City Star, May 27, 2009).

Whitworth summarized the charges against the 12 individuals: "This RICO indictment alleges an extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which hundreds of illegal aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses across the country. The defendants allegedly used false information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign nationals." (Workforce Management, May 28, 2009). Acting special agent in charge of ICE James Gibbons noted that "the indictment alleges that this criminal enterprise lured victims to the United States under the guise of legitimate jobs and a better life, only to treat them as modern-day slaves under the threat of deportation." ICE estimates that the scheme resulted in proceeds of at least $6 million. (ICE Press Release, May 27, 2009).

IN A SPAN OF A FEW DAYS, IN ONLY TWO LOCATIONS, TEXAS AND SAN DIEGO, 600 ILLEGALS PICKED UP!

THEY SAY THAT FOR EVERY ILLEGAL PICKED UP AT OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDER, EIGHT GET THROUGH. GET THROUGH TO WHERE? OUR JOBS, WELFARE LINES, BIRTHING CENTERS, PRISONS AND JAILS!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OBAMA’S “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” MEANS? OPEN BORDERS. WE FIGHT TERRORIST OVER THERE, NOT HERE!

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“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its law enforcement partners arrested 284 foreign nationals with criminal records during a three-day enforcement surge throughout Texas, making it the biggest operation targeting at-large criminal aliens ever carried out by ICE in the state.”

ICE ENFORCEMENT SURGE NABS 284 CRIMINAL ALIENS THROUGHOUT TEXAS

by Shaw, Bransford & Roth, P.C.

March 4, 2010

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its law enforcement partners arrested 284 foreign nationals with criminal records during a three-day enforcement surge throughout Texas, making it the biggest operation targeting at-large criminal aliens ever carried out by ICE in the state. During the recent operation, ICE officers and agents worked in teams with the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service, and local law enforcement agencies. Of the 284 arrested, nearly 160 foreign nationals have violent criminal histories - such as homicide, assault and robbery - and more than 20 have convictions for sexual offenses. Of the total arrested, 18 have already been removed from the country.

At a recent news conference, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE John Morton announced the results of the special operation, which involved more than 280 federal and local law enforcement officers and agents. Assistant Secretary Morton cited the operation as another example of the vital role multi-agency cooperation and targeted immigration enforcement play in protecting our communities.

"We are a compassionate nation with a proud history of immigration," said Morton. "But we are also a nation governed by laws specifically designed to protect its citizens and residents. Those who come to the United States to prey upon our neighbors and communities will be prosecuted for their crimes and ultimately returned to their home countries. The results of this week's operation demonstrate ICE's commitment to that principle."

Arrests in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area accounted for the largest number of apprehensions during the operation, where a total of 119 criminal aliens were taken into custody. San Antonio recorded the next highest number of arrests with 73. The arrestees, 259 men and 25 women, represent more than 22 different nations, including countries in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Because of their serious criminal histories and prior immigration arrest records, at least 23 of those arrested during the enforcement surge face federal prosecution for illegally reentering the country after being formally deported. A conviction for felony reentry carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

ICE officials say that foreign nationals arrested during the operation who have active warrants will be referred to the associated local law enforcement agency. ICE will place detainers to ensure those individuals return to ICE custody following disposition of their criminal cases. Those who have outstanding orders of deportation, or who returned to the U.S. illegally after being deported, are subject to immediate removal from the country. The remaining individuals are in ICE custody awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge, or pending travel arrangements for removal in the near future.

The special enforcement action was spearheaded by ICE's Fugitive Operations Program, which is responsible for locating, arresting, and removing at large criminal aliens and immigration fugitives - aliens who have ignored final orders of deportation handed down by the nation's immigration courts. ICE's Fugitive Operations Teams (FOTs) give top priority to cases involving aliens who pose a threat to national security and public safety, including members of transnational street gangs and child sex offenders.

The officers who conducted this special operation received substantial assistance from ICE's Fugitive Operations Support Center (FOSC) located in South Burlington, Vermont. The FOSC conducted exhaustive database checks on the targeted cases to help ensure the viability of the leads and accuracy of the criminal histories. The FOSC was established in 2006 to improve the integrity of the data available on at large criminal aliens and immigration fugitives nationwide. Since its inception, the FOSC has forwarded more than 150,000 case leads to ICE enforcement personnel in the field.

United States, Israel Announce Agreement to Enhance Joint Aviation Security Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Israeli Transport and Road Safety Minister Israel Katz have unveiled a new agreement to enhance information sharing about civil aviation security incidents and ensure efficient and effective coordination in response to potential acts of terrorism and other aviation-related public safety emergencies.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recognizes the need for cooperation between the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Security Department of the Israel MOT to manage aviation-related security incidents - establishing designated points of contact for each agency; protocols for notification in the event of an incident; mechanisms to enhance communication; and regular exercises.

The MOU reflects both nations' commitment to coordinate mutual security efforts, shown recently by the stationing of DHS law enforcement personnel in Israel for the first time, as well as the Memorandum of Mutual Understanding between DHS and the Israeli Ministry of Public Security signed on February 7, 2007, which enhanced the ability of the U.S. and Israel to share vital information relating to their respective domestic security concerns - including aviation security, emergency planning and response, and homeland security-related research and protocols.

"The real-time exchange of information with our international partners is critical to our efforts to enhance overall global aviation security," said Secretary Napolitano. "This agreement will allow the United States and Israel to better coordinate on and respond to potential aviation security incidents to strengthen our mutual safety."

"MOU implementation will further improve the effectiveness of the cooperation between the respective civil aviation security authorities," added Minister Katz. "Such International collaboration is of particular importance to ensure effective response to the evolving threat to international aviation."

SAN DIEGO - The Department of Homeland Security says nearly 300 illegal immigrants were arrested at border checkpoints near San Diego over the weekend.

The department said Monday that 294 immigrants were found hidden in vehicles or were using fraudulent entry documents or documents legally issued to someone else. Among those arrested were 16 fugitives wanted on charges of battery, burglary, assault and probation violation.

The department says a Guatemalan national was arrested after border agents determined that a U.S. birth certificate and prison release authorization form he presented belonged to someone else.

Authorities say the man is awaiting arraignment at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles for allegedly making a false claim to U.S. citizenship.

*ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.

*Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold. *TEN MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN CALIFORNIA ARE MEXICANS!http://ag.ca.gov/wanted/mostwanted.php?fid=mostWantedFugitives_2010-01Lou Dobbs Tonight And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs. *Lou Dobbs Tonight Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.

CAN WE REALLY AFFORD MORE LIFER DEMS’ OR THEIR SELLOUTS TO THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS, AND LA RAZA “THE RACE” ILLEGALS???

THIS IS WHAT 20 YEARS OF BUSH, HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH, AND THEIR WAR PROFITEER, DIANNE FEINSTEIN HAVE GIVEN US, NOW BEING ACCELERATED ON STEROIDS BY BARACK OBAMA: More corporate rape and pillage!

“Last week, Congress passed an administration “jobs” bill allocating a derisory $17 billion, virtually all of which goes to tax cuts for companies that hire unemployed workers. No serious measures are being taken to address the increasingly desperate economic plight of millions of Americans, who are facing ongoing layoffs, wage cuts, home foreclosures, utility shutoffs, malnutrition, and the loss of savings as a result of plummeting home prices, rising health care costs and pension reductions.”*“With the passage of Obama’s health care overhaul, the stage has been set for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.”*“Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen said this week, “What I fear is that unemployment will stay high for years.”*“This statistical divergence reflects the fact that the present recovery is largely a rebound in corporate profits and the wealth of the financial elite, while the living standards of the vast majority of Americans are continuing to fall. In other words, class divisions in the US are widening.”“Corporate CEOs are continuing to award themselves multimillion-dollar pay packages. In the past few days, Ford announced that Chief Executive Alan Mulally is receiving $17.9 million for 2009, an increase of nearly 6 percent over 2008; JC Penney CEO Myron Ullman will get at least $4.7 million; and the CEO of insurance giant Travelers, Jay Fishman, is netting $20.6 million, an increase of 42 percent over the previous year.”*BANKSTERS’ MASSIVE RAPE AND PILLAGE PROFITS UP! LIKELIHOOD FOR ANY REAL REGULATION DOWN!FORECLOSURES UP!CEO BONUSES UP!BORDER CRIMES UP!MEXICANS IN OUR JOBS UP!WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS UP!MASSIVE PROFITS FOR BIG FARMA UNDER THE OBAMA PELSOI HEALTH CARE UP!MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL OVER OUR BORDERS UP!MEXICAN GANGS SPREADING FAST!BORDERS OPENING UP FAST FOR MORE ILLEGALS!All we need is AMNESTY! AMNESTY FOR 38 MILLION RACIST MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS!

WSWS.ORG GET ON THEIR FREE NO ADS EMAILS FOR THE NON-CORPORATE INTERESTS SLANT*US jobless claims, home sales point to protracted recessionBy Barry Grey 26 March 2010The US Labor Department on Thursday reported that initial claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly in the week ending March 20, prompting much of the media to hail the data as another sign that the job market is “stabilizing” and the economic recovery is gaining strength.The number of unemployed people who signed up for jobless benefits for the first time fell by 14,000 to a seasonally adjusted 442,000, down from the prior week’s figure of 456,000. However, all but 4,000 of the decline was the result of changes in the metrics used by the Labor Department to calculate the data on a seasonally adjusted basis.Had the report used the previous methodology, the figure for new claims would have actually been higher than the 450,000 projected by most economists.The four-week moving average for initial claims fell by 11,000 to 453,750. Continuing claims—those made for more than one week—fell by 54,000 to 4.6 million for the week ending March 13. However, this was down from an upwardly revised figure for the previous week.The Labor Department said that although initial claims fell in three of the past four weeks, they were still above the 439,000 posted in early February.One measure of the ongoing jobs crisis, which has seen the elimination of 8.4 million jobs since December 2007, is the fact that more than 11.1 million workers are claiming jobless benefits—4.6 million of whom are on state jobless rolls and 5.7 million who are receiving extended benefits from the federal government.The government puts the official jobless total at 15.1 million workers. In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted that the “unemployment situation is very weak,” with 40 percent of those officially counted as jobless having been without work for more than 6 months.However, far from suggesting any serious job creation measures, Bernanke reiterated his call for the White House and Congress to formulate an austerity program to rein in record federal budget deficits. Such, in fact, is the policy of the Obama administration.Obama has rejected out of hand any government job-creation programs, such as public works. In the name of “job creation,” he and congressional Democrats have proposed a series of tax breaks for business, claiming that such windfalls will revive the private sector and encourage more hiring.Last week, Congress passed an administration “jobs” bill allocating a derisory $17 billion, virtually all of which goes to tax cuts for companies that hire unemployed workers. No serious measures are being taken to address the increasingly desperate economic plight of millions of Americans, who are facing ongoing layoffs, wage cuts, home foreclosures, utility shutoffs, malnutrition, and the loss of savings as a result of plummeting home prices, rising health care costs and pension reductions.Another so-called “jobs” bill is in the works that will provide additional tax windfalls for business interests.With the passage of Obama’s health care overhaul, the stage has been set for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. This is to be a precedent for sweeping cuts in the core “entitlement” social program, Social Security. Earlier this year, Obama announced the formation of a bipartisan deficit commission to recommend cuts in Social Security and further cuts in Medicare as a means of reversing the explosive growth of federal budget deficits.Meanwhile, corporate America, with the encouragement of the Obama administration, is utilizing mass unemployment to drive down the wages and living standards of the working class, while extracting more production from those still employed, thereby increasing corporate profits.According to most economists, the figure for new jobless claims has to fall below 400,000 to indicate a shift to net job creation. Some economists responded to Thursday’s report with a sober assessment. Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors, said, “We are still not seeing the degree of job creation that is needed to meaningfully chip away at a persistently high unemployment rate near 10 percent.”While noting that the pace of job losses has slowed from the torrent that followed the financial crash of 2008, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Janet Yellen said this week, “What I fear is that unemployment will stay high for years.”In another sign of the continuing slump, the Commerce Department on Wednesday reported that sales of new homes fell 2.2 percent in February from the previous month, hitting their lowest level since records began in 1963. February new home sales were at an annualized rate of 308,000 units, 13 percent below the level of February 2009.That marked the fourth straight monthly decline. The Federal Reserve is set to end its purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities from the home finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the end of this month, which is likely to result in a further decline in home sales and prices and a new wave of layoffs in construction and related industries.Barely noted by the media is an escalating wave of layoffs by state and local governments, which are responding to soaring deficits by slashing services and shutting schools. State and local governments employ 20 million workers, or 15 percent of the labor force. In the first two months of this year, they have cut 45,000 jobs, and more layoffs are expected in fiscal year 2011.Just this week, the city of Baltimore announced the layoff of 600 employees, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina) school board voted to begin laying off 600 teachers and cutting the pay of all 224 assistant principals.Private sector layoffs announced this week include 840 by Delta Airlines at its Cincinnati, Ohio facility; 200 by defense contractor BAE Systems at its Jefferson City, Tennessee plant; and a 4 percent workforce reduction throughout New England by the Shaw’s supermarket chain.The true depth of the recession is being obscured by the government. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Board economist Jeremy Nalewaik released a paper arguing that the government’s reliance on estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP) to measure economic performance has resulted in an underestimation of the depth of the recession, which officially ended last year, and an overestimation of the scale of the claimed recovery.Nalewaik said that a more accurate barometer is a measure of national income, called gross domestic income (GDI). He noted, “The differences have become particularly glaring over the latest cyclical downturn, which appears considerably worse along several dimensions when looking at GDI.”Along similar lines, David Rosenberg, chief economist at money management firm Gluskin Sheff, wrote in a note to clients last week that GDI was still contracting in the third quarter of 2009, when the GDP was reported to have surged by 5.9 percent. He pointed out that the gap between GDP and GDI was the largest on record.This statistical divergence reflects the fact that the present recovery is largely a rebound in corporate profits and the wealth of the financial elite, while the living standards of the vast majority of Americans are continuing to fall. In other words, class divisions in the US are widening.Corporate CEOs are continuing to award themselves multimillion-dollar pay packages. In the past few days, Ford announced that Chief Executive Alan Mulally is receiving $17.9 million for 2009, an increase of nearly 6 percent over 2008; JC Penney CEO Myron Ullman will get at least $4.7 million; and the CEO of insurance giant Travelers, Jay Fishman, is netting $20.6 million, an increase of 42 percent over the previous year.